Following last week’s announcement by data centre company ODATA that is expanding its wind power supply in Brazil, another story, this time from India, underlines the growing importance of offering – and being seen to offer – clean energy.
India's Adani Group, a diversified organisation in India comprising ten publicly traded companies across a number of sectors, has said it will supply clean energy to power Google's cloud services and operations in India.
The group will supply energy from a new solar-wind hybrid project located at its 30 gigawatt (GW) Khavda renewable energy park in the western state of Gujarat. The solar-wind hybrid project will start commercial operations in the third quarter of 2025.
Reuters reports that Google powers most of its cloud operations and services with electricity from the grid but plans to run them entirely through clean energy by 2030. Adani itself also plans to set up data centres that will be powered by clean energy.
ODATA meanwhile, said last week that it plans to expand its wind power supply from the Assuruá IV wind farm (212 MW), located in the northeastern Brazilian state Bahia. This growth is driven by a new agreement with renewable energy supply company Serena Energia; it is said to represent a 135% increase in contracted volume.
ODATA claims to have set a new industry standard by being the first hyperscale data centre in Latin America to achieve 100% renewable energy usage in Brazil. This initiative aligns with ODATA’s commitment to fuel its rapid expansion in Brazil with clean, renewable energy sourced from renewable power plants in which it has a stake.
